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Medium 21 – Killings From The Dial

Young English heirs to The Flaming Lips

Use Your Delusion

Twenty-first album from America's startlingly original lord of lo-fi

The Hidden Cameras – The Smell Of Our Own

Self-styled "gay church folk music" from Toronto

Smallville – Eastwest

The fastest-growing TV show in the US, wherein tales of a young Superman are accompanied by a radio-soft blend of American rock, from Remy Zero's theme to Ryan Adams' "Nuclear". Von Ray's "Inside Out" is the spit of Nickelback, and the new single. Best thing here by a mile is The Flaming Lips' "Fight Test", the opening track of what's been described in these pages as the greatest album since Best Of Jesus Christ Volume One. It's lovely, but owes an extraordinary debt to the Cat Stevens song "Father To Son".

Mark Bacino – The Million Dollar Milkshake

Power pop with guts

Return Of The Grievous Angel

The mighty Lemonhead gets seven-year-itch and returns a much-changed man

Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac – The Best Of…

Cherry-picked selection from original Mac man who had the blues word perfect

Toppermost Of The Coppermost

Reissue of blonde wonders' five studio albums. In other words, Sting when he was good

East Goes West

Analytical US-style remake of slow-burning Japanese chiller

Culloden – The War Game

Director Peter Watkins' mid-1960s work for the BBC still shines. Culloden recreated the famous battle as if covered by a modern news team—a radical approach for the time. More controversially, The War Game showed that nuclear war was an unwinnable nightmare, and was consequently banned by the Beeb, though it picked up an Oscar when released theatrically in 1966.
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